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"Arrival of a Federal Column at a Planter's House in Dixie," engraving by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, 1863, courtesy of the Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection.

"Electioneering in the South" An Orator Addresses Freedpeople at an Outdoor Meeting, sketched by W.L. Sheppard, Harper's Weekly, 1868, courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.

African American laborers on a rice plantation, Georgetown, South Carolina, ca. 1895, courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.

Map showing the concentration of enslaved people in the South, 1860.

"By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation," No. 37, President Andrew Johnson, May 29, 1865, courtesy of Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress

"Reading the Government order of Rights and Privileges to the Freedmen," fromThe operations of the registration laws and Negro [suffr]age in the South, Macon, GA and New Orleans, LA, 1867, sketch by James E. Taylor inFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, courtesy ofLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

"The Watermelon Market at Charleston, S. C.," sketch by James E. Taylor, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1866, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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"Scene in Registration office, Macon, Ga," 1867, sketch by James E. Taylor in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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"Freedmen ... New Orleans,"1867, sketch by James E. Taylor in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Ceremonial copy of the Thirteenth Amendment [signed by Abraham Lincoln and members of Congress], February 1, 1865. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

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